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Where Nature, in her glorious majesty, 
holds court, and grants the boon of rest 
and happiness to all who come. 

PERIOD of rest or recreation is essential to good 
health. It is not the quantity of work which 
spells success, but the quality of the effort, and 
the question is no longer whether or not one can 
afford a vacation, but, rather, whether or not one 
can afford not to take one. 

Any vacation is good, but a vacation in Colorado — an outing 
in the Rockies — means the fulfillment of every promise and a 
succession of delights which cannot be found elsewhere. 

Colorado will satisfy your most exacting demands. The 
desire for enjoyment may be gratified in such a variety of ways 
as to captivate and draw you back another time to feast your 
senses in this land of enchantment, with its pure air and golden 
sunshine, lofty peaks and canon depths, sparkling streams and 
mirrored lakes. 

There need not be a dull moment. It is the place to do 
things and to enjoy immensely the doing. One who seeks the 
pleasure of convivial company may have it in abundance. One 
who craves quiet solitude in which to escape the bondage of 
routine, forget the whirl of business or social life, and to get 
close to Nature in a mountain camp, finds in the Colorado 
Rockies a wealth of opportunities. 

There are but few localities where good fishing may not be 
found. Wild fowls are in abundance and larger game in all its 
native wildness roams the more remote and less accessible 
mountain forests and verdant parks. 



Those who are not ready to relinquish the comforts and 
conveniences of city Hfe will find excellent hotels or less pre- 
tentious stopping places in Colorado' s numerous resorts, where 
every wish may be gratified at reasonable cost. 

Colorado' s location and ready accessibility from any section 
of the country is a very important factor in its constantly 
increasing popularity. 

There are one-night trains from Chicago, St. Louis and 
Kansas City, with equally good service from a score of other 
large cities in the Middle West. It is but a two nights' easy 
trip from the Atlantic seaboard to the Rocky Mountains. 

Very low railway fares are made effective each summer from 
all quarters to Colorado and return, and the visit to the Rockies 
is thus placed within reach of those of modest means. Stop- 
overs are permitted on tickets to points beyond, and opportunity 
given for visiting resorts en route. 

Denver, Colorado Springs, Manitou and Glenwood Springs 
are the best known and most popular of Colorado's resorts. It 
may seem odd to include Denver, a city of some two hundred 
thousand, in this category, but it belongs there. It is a summer 
resort, as well as a rich and beautiful city, where one could 




The Babbling Brook 




Among the Fines 

spend a month to excellent advantage. It is the best starting 
point for many attractive one-day trips to and through the 
mountains, which are but fifteen miles away. It has beautiful 
parks, summer gardens, scores of good restaurants, hundreds of 
boarding-houses and a street railway system that has few equals. 

Colorado Springs is an exceedingly beautiful city, which lies 
almost at the foot of Pike's Peak. It is the home of several 
thousand people of wealth and refinement attracted from all 
quarters by its charms. Those who seek escape from the noise 
and tumult of a big city and still feel the need of having at hand 
all the comforts and conveniences of metropolitan life, will find 
Colorado Springs, with its excellent hotels, ideal. 

Manitou is essentially a pleasure resort, with several large 
hotels and a great number of smaller ones, to say nothing of 
innumerable boarding places. It has for many years enjoyed a 
deserved popularity and entertains thousands of guests annually. 
The springs and hotel ballrooms are Manitou' s centers of activity. 

Glenwood Springs, with its famous baths, lies in the very 
heart of the Rockies, about three hundred miles west of Colorado 
Springs. Its location is magnificent, in a valley through which 
flows one of the largest of Colorado's rivers. 



Colorado is fortunate in possessing a number of resorts that 
are different from the general run of summering places. Estes 
Park is such a place; Wagon Wheel Gap, Eldorado Springs and 
Manitou Park are others. So, in a way, are the pretty lodges 
in Platte Carion. So are any number of the smaller towns and 
resort places in the interior. They are located on the sides of 
mountains, on the banks of streams where famous fishing is to 
be had, or near springs whose waters come bubbling to the 
earth' s surface — queer of taste, hot to the touch, but of great 
therapeutic value. 

Ranch life is one of the greatest of Colorado's possibilities. 
The picturesque mountain parks in the interior afford splendid 
fishing in crystal streams. Many well-equipped ranches, where 
accommodations may be had at very reasonable rates, are located 
in these parks and provide opportunities for the joys of the out- 
door free ranch life with every hardship eliminated. 

These are the places that are truly and typically Coloradan. 
These are the places where one intuitively adopts the simple 
life; where, for the first time in years, perhaps, one fully realizes 
how beautiful is the blue sky and how fine is a breath of air, 
fresh from snowy peaks; how good to be alive. 




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Denvefs Greeting 

To see Colorado to best advantage go first to Denver or 
Colorado Springs. There one can get one's bearings. They 
are the tourist's headquarters, the railroad and business centers, 
the places from which all roads lead into the interior. North of 
Denver is a rich, irrigated region; east, the rolling plains, sloping 
gently towards the Missouri; west, a veritable sea of mountains; 
south lie those gems of cities, Colorado Springs and Manitou, 
and beyond is Pueblo — the "Pittsburg of the West." 

What sort of clothing to wear in Colorado depends largely 
on what your intentions are. If you expect to spend most of 
your time in the cities, you should take with you clothing for all 
the social occasions that are likely to arise, of the weight and 
texture you would wear at home at that time of year. A light 
overcoat, or wrap, a pair of stout shoes for mountain climbing, 
a soft hat and an old suit are desirable. If you go into camp 
life or rough it, heavy shoes, flannel shirt and old clothes, with 
a sweater for emergency, will meet requirements. 




On the Way to Estes Park 





And mountains, that like giants stand. 
To sentinel enchanted land. 

— Scott. 

HILE the Alps have isolated peaks such as Mont 
Blanc and the Matterhorn, attaining an altitude of 
nearly sixteen thousand and fifteen thousand feet 
respectively, the mean elevation of the highest 
Alpine chain does not exceed nine thousand feet. 
Colorado possesses more than one hundred and twenty peaks of 
nearly fourteen thousand feet, and some thirty-five of a still 
greater height. 

The highest village in the Alps is Avers Platz in Svi^itzerland ; 
and Europe' s highest inhabited point, the Hospice of St. Bernard 
in Switzerland, is but eight thousand two hundred feet. In 
Colorado the city of Leadville is over ten thousand feet above 
sea-level, with other mining camps still higher. Several mines 
are worked at an elevation of over thirteen thousand feet. 

The celebrated Jungfrau Railway in Switzerland, the highest 
in Europe, ascends a mountain with an elevation of thirteen 
thousand seven hundred feet. In Colorado the Gray's Peak 
Route reaches the summit of Mount McClellan, an elevation of 
more than fourteen thousand feet; the Colorado Midland crosses 
the mountains through Busk Tunnel at an elevation of nearly 
eleven thousand feet; the Moffat Road crosses the divide at 
Corona, eleven thousand six hundred feet, and the Denver & 
Rio Grande at Fremont Pass, Marshall Pass and Tennessee 
Pass at nearly as great altitudes. There are wagon roads over 
numerous passes in Colorado of twelve thousand feet upwards. 
In Switzerland the cog railroad from Vitznau to the summit 




A Hundred-Mile View from the Short Line 

of the Rigi Kulm has a length of four and a half miles, in which 
the ascent is a trifle more than four thousand feet. In Colorado 
the cog railroad from Manitou to the summit of Pike's Peak has 
a length of eight and three-quarters miles, in which the ascent 
is over eight thousand feet, or an average of eight hundred and 
forty-six feet per mile, the maximum grade being one thousand 
three hundred and twenty feet per mile. 

In Switzerland eight thousand five hundred feet is the usual 
line of perpetual snow. In Colorado the "timber line" is 
eleven thousand feet. 

The attractions of Colorado are not confined to great alti- 
tudes, vast canons and seas of plains. Climate figures most 
conspicuously. 

Davos Platz, in Switzerland, at an elevation of five thousand 
two hundred feet, is considered the most desirable of the high- 
altitude health resorts of Europe. Climatologists and specialists 
of international fame say that Colorado is far superior to Davos 



Platz for pulmonary and kindred troubles, having a hiy:her 
average temperature, less rainfall, less humidity, and about twice 
the number of hours of sunshine. Each year sees the arrival of 
increasing numbers of people who confirm this opinion after 
having tried both. 

This is true of all Colorado. Her cities are especially 
attractive, and most careful attention is everywhere paid to 
proper sanitation and cleanliness, but he who would find Nature 
in her sweetest moods hies himself to some of the out-of-the-way 
places and for a period his letters bear queer superscriptions, 
while he revels in all the loveliness of scene and climate with 
which she surrounds herself in Colorado. 

It is only within recent years, however, that the world has 
awakened to the fact that Colorado's climate is delightful the 
year 'round. Its special characteristics are minimum precipita- 
tion, low humidity and maximum sunshine. There are a few 
cold days in winter and some hot days in summer; but the 
absence of humidity minimizes the effects of both. Hot nights 
are unknown, while a winter's residence in Colorado will forever 
banish the idea that it is a boreal country, given over to inclem- 
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Oh, what have I to do with Time? 

For this the day was made. Fmfrson 

OLORADO is a perennial vacation land, where 
one may be happily and profitably occupied every 
hour in the day. At some resorts, Colorado 
Springs and Manitou for example, there are so 
many ways of passing time that one is frequently 
placed in the embarrassing position of having to decide off-hand 
between golf, polo, riding, driving, tennis, cricket, coaching, 
bathing or automobiling, each giving promise of the maximum 
of pleasure inherent to the sport. 

In Colorado golf is always in season. When Eastern links 
are buried in snow and sodden with rain and thawing frost the 
Colorado golfer is pursuing the elusive ball over fair green, 
through sand traps and bunkers. 

It is in the summer, however, that the courses make their 
greatest appeal and the visitor establishes new records a mile 
above sea-level. The keen and invigorating mountain air, the 
sparkling sunshine and the sight of snow-clad mountains con- 
stantly tempt one to make golf the real business of life. 

Denver has a large coterie of enthusiasts and fine courses. 
At no point in the State, however, is the game more popular 
than at Colorado Springs. At this famous resort are two of the 
best courses in the West. The Town and Gown Golf Club 
has an excellent and very attractive eighteen-hole course, which 
has been pronounced one of the sportiest extant. It is over six 
thousand yards long, on the eastern edge of the city, within 
easy access of town by trolley car, wheel or carriage. The 
course covers a tract of one hundred acres of sandy loam, over- 




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grown with short buffalo grass. There is no lack of hazards. 
They consist of arroyos, irrigating ditches, bunkers and sand 
traps, so placed that accurate play is at a premium. A topped 
ball stops in rough ground, while a slice or a pull lands it out of 
bounds or in a trap. The putting greens are of sand, as in all 
dry climates. After a player has gauged their speed, they are 
true and accurate. 

The clubhouse, of the bungalow type, is extremely attractive 
and up to date in every respect. 

The older club of Colorado Springs, known as the Cheyenne 
Mountain Country Club, is located at Broadmoor, and easily 
reached by a twenty-minute trolley ride. The course is laid out 
at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain and consists of eighteen 
holes. Groves of scrub oaks, creeks and draws furnish natural 
hazards. The scenery is remarkably beautiful. 

At both of these clubs professionals are in attendance and 
guests may obtain cards. 

Denver, Colorado Springs and Glenwood have as fine polo 
fields and as enthusiastic players as are to be found anywhere in 
the country. Cricket and tennis are in high favor, while the 
excellence of Colorado's roads has contributed more, perhaps, 
than anything else to make automobiling popular. The boule- 
vard from Denver to Colorado Springs and Pueblo skirts the 
foothills and commands an unsurpassed view of the mountains. 




A Likely Spot 




7 wind about, and in and out, 

With here a blossom sailing, 
And here and there a lusty trout, 

And here and there a grayling. 

— Tennyson. 




OLORADO is a veritable paradise for sportsmen. 
Its six thousand miles of trout streams and five 
hundred lakes that lie high up in the mountain 
ranges, mesas and parks are stocked with several 
species of native trout, such as the black spotted 
trout (Sa/mo sp'ilurus) , which has a pure white flesh of fine fibre, 
and Salmo purpuratus, sometimes called Salmo Virginalus, which 
has red flesh. The yellow finned trout {Salmo mykis) is also 
found in Twin Lakes, Lake County, and several other native 
varieties are found in the Frying Pan River, the South Platte 
River, the Bear River, the White River, the Grand River, 
Grand Lake and other streams. 

For several years past Colorado has maintained a fish hatchery 
near Denver, and branch hatcheries are established at Twin 
Lakes, Gunnison and Durango. The United States Govern- 
ment has a large hatchery at Evergreen Lake, near Leadville. 
From these establishments millions of young fish are turned into 
the streams of the State each year. Among the varieties which 
have been introduced are the Eastern brook trout, now regarded 
by some as a char {Sa/mo or Salvelinus fontinalis) , a red and 
yellow speckled trout; the European brook trout {Salmo irridea) ; 
the yellow salmon trout {Salmo sehage) , introduced from Maine; 
the Mackinaw trout {Salmo confinis) ; the Loch Levin trout 
from Scotland, and the famous Lake Tahoe trout from Nevada. 




^'Ttw Big Ones" Like the Shady Spots 

The streams of Colorado equal those of Maine for sport, 
while the superiority of scenery, climate and comparative free- 
dom from mosquitoes give Colorado a decided advantage for a 
fishing holiday. 

In the w^ilder parts of the higher mountains and parks and in 
the more remote portions of the lower country are mountain 
lion or panther, black bear, cinnamon bear, grizzly bear, silver- 
tipped bear, wild cat, lynx, wolf, coyote, porcupine, fox, badger, 
beaver, also black-tailed deer, elk, antelope, grouse, duck, goose, 
snipe, crane, rabbit, squirrel, mountain quail and dove. These 
animals may be found near the headwaters of the Arkansas, the 
Frying Pan, the Rio Grande del Norte, the Roaring Fork, the 
Gunnison, the Yampa, the Grand, the White, the San Miguel, 
the San Juan and other rivers. All these points are easily 
reached by railroad. 

The detailed game and fish laws of Colorado, a brief synopsis 
of which is given, can be procured upon application to the State 
Game and Fish Commissioner at Denver. 

Open season, for deer, with or without horns, October first 
to twentieth of each year. 



Mountain sheep, antelope and elk, having horns, bobwhite 
quail and crested quail are protected at all seasons and must 
not be taken. 

The open season for prairie chickens and grouse extends 
from August twentieth to October first, and for sage chickens 
during August and September. 

Wild ducks, geese, snipe, brant, swans and other water 
fowls and shore birds may be taken from the middle of September 
until the middle of April; no food shall be placed within one 
hundred yards of any shore or blind for the purpose of feeding 
wild fowls. 

Doves may be shot from August fifteenth to September fifth. 

The law provides that the public shall have the right to fish 
in any stream stocked at public expense, subject to actions in 
trespass for any damage done, and fixes the open season from 
June first to November thirtieth. No trout may be taken less 
than seven inches in length, and no fishing shall be done 
between the hours of ten in the evening and four in the morning. 

The right given to take or kill game and fish is limited to 
food purposes only, and to twenty pounds of trout in any one 
calendar day. 




A Colorado Summer Camp 




Seven Falls — Cheyenne Canon 




Colorado Springs, Manitou and the 
Garden of the Gods 





Nor these alone, hut every landscape fair 

As fit for every mood of mind, 
Or gay or grave, or sweet or stern — was there 

Not less than truth designed. 

— Tennyson. 

HILE any description of the Pike's Peak region 
must needs be sadly inadequate, that of Mr, 
George Rex Buckman presents a most attractive 
word picture. 

*'The Rocky Mountains, in their majestic 
sweep through the North American continent, culminate midway 
in their course and within the limits of the State of Colorado. 
Here is the * Crest of the Continent' — its supremest uplift — 
where from a vast central plateau, itself six thousand feet above 
the sea, rise hundreds of granite peaks into the regions of 
perpetual snow. Here the waters of a continent are divided 
and great rivers flowing to either ocean have their source. 
Here are caiions and gorges, awe inspiring and stupendous, 
which testify to the hoary age of the mountains they cut asunder; 
and a score of peak-encircled parks, any one of which might 
constitute a principality. Here are the continent's treasure 
vaults, where veins of gold and silver seam the granite mountains. 
Here are medicinal springs for healing and refreshment; and 
here, under skies of deepest blue, lies a sun-bathed land with a 
climate whose delights and perfections the lowland dweller may 
not know. 

"Scarcely more than three decades have passed since this 
region was a terra incognita, the hunting ground of the Indian 
and the home of wild beasts. Three hundred miles north- 



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ward had swept the stream of the CaHfornia Argonauts, to whom 
these culminating ranges had been but gigantic barriers blocking 
their way to the Golden Gate and the Eldorado of their dreams. 
Far to southward lay the Santa Fe Trail — that dusty highway 
strewn with the bleaching bones of man and beast, which linked 
the western outposts of our civilization with the ancient land of 
the Spaniard and with all the mystery and charm of the sunny 
Southwest. Far removed from the highways across the plains, 
these mighty mountains had heretofore remained untrodden by 
the foot of the emigrant or trader; only a few adventurous 
explorers had as yet penetrated their fastness. And to all of 
these the chief guiding beacon had been a single snowy peak, 
visible for fifty leagues, that rose companionless from its brown 
foothills and from the very edge of the Great Plains. 

'If the thought had ever arisen in the minds of the 
early explorers that a city should some day be planted at the 
foot of Pike's Peak, it had no doubt been quickly dismissed 
as the flight of a too exuberant fancy; but when, in 1870, 



Gen. William J. Palmer started his Denver & Rio Grande 
Railway southward from the frontier settlement at Denver these 
seemingly Utopian dreams were not far from realization. For 
among the many projects connected with the material conquest 
and development of the new region, not the least important 
was that of the founding of a little city which should from 
the beginning present especial attractions to the invalid and 
valetudinarian. That this city should be located in the Pike's 
Peak region was a foregone conclusion. Accordingly, a tract 
of ten thousand acres was purchased and a course of intelligent 
and generous expenditure entered upon by the Colorado Springs 
Company. Thousands of trees were planted along the avenues 
of the new city and costly irrigation works constructed, making 
possible the umbrageous avenues and shrubbery-dotted lawns 
which to-day delight the eye of every visitor and form one of 
the city's chief attractions. 

From the beginning the growth of the little city was steady 
and, at times, rapid. Wisely directed must have been this 
growth, for the visitor of to-day finds here at the foot of Pike' s 
Peak a city of thirty-five thousand inhabitants, with abundant 




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evidences on every hand of continued prosperity and growth; 
its shaded avenues hned with beautiful and, in many cases, 
costly residences, with fine hotels and handsome business blocks; 
possessing a magnificent water system, by which the purest water 
is piped from crystal lakes high up on the side of Pike's Peak; 
lighted by electricity; supplied with an extended telephone sys- 
tem, and having many miles of electric railway, perhaps the 
most modern system in the West; complete modern sewerage; 
numerous and costly public school buildings and highly favored 
as the seat of Colorado College; having a handsome opera-house 
and six clubs, two of which occupy their own delightful homes; 
with many handsome and costly church edifices and numerous 
sanitariums, hospitals and other charitable institutions; with a 
casino to find whose equal in elegance and completeness one 
must visit the most noted of the Old World spas — a city, indeed, 
affording to residents and visitors all the conveniences and com- 
forts and a large share of the advantages and pleasures incident 
to modern city life, yet lying ever in the majestic presence of 
the overshadowing mountains and close to Nature's heart. 

"Colorado Springs in many respects is unique; one may 
search the world over and not find another city exactly like it. 



To the new-comer it is an anomaly, albeit a charming one. His 
first glances fail to reveal the basis upon which rests this evident 
prosperity and growth. No large manufactories are seen sending 
forth volumes of smoke; the surrounding country is manifestly 
inadequate to support such a city. But he is not long in dis- 
covering that, whatever the city's future may be by reason of its 
importance as a railroad center and the continued development 
of the rich mines in its immediate vicinity, however these may 
mold its future, it owes its present importance and peculiar 
character, in largest measure, to the fact that it possesses a 
climate of remarkable health-restoring qualities and delightful at 
all seasons of the year, and to the further fact that its scenery in 
grandeur and variety is unrivaled upon the continent. Climate 
and scenery, then, are the chief foundation stones upon which 
this beautiful and attractive city has been built." 

*'The empire of climate," wrote Montesquieu, is the most 
powerful of all empires" ; the settlement of the Rocky Mountain 
region in general, and of Colorado Springs in particular, bears 
witness to the truth of this assertion. More potent than all the 
gold and silver in her mountains and all the abounding resources 
of a virgin land has been her health-giving and health-restoring 
climate in planting upon these upland plateaus a population 
drawn from almost every quarter of the globe. 




A MoriiLiig Drive 




Ute Pass 




Crystal Lake 



Manitou, the Saratoga of the West, is close under the very 
shadow of Pike's Peak, almost surrounded by lofty mountains, 
at the entrance to the Ute Pass, and but a little way from the 
Ruxton and Williams canons; its fountains of health have bubbled 
and blessed mankind for centuries. The Indians knew them 
and appreciated their worth, and named them reverently after 
the Great Spirit, by which cognomen the place is known to-day. 
There are fourteen springs in all, no two alike, and one the 
largest soda spring in the world. Some of the waters, charged 
with their own gas, are bottled for table use, and shipped exten- 
sively; others are used where they flow, for bathing. 

Five large hotels and many smaller ones and boarding- 
houses are fully occupied in the season by those who, by 
experience, have proven the efficacy of these waters. Fashion 
long ago stamped Manitou with her approval, and this irregular, 
secluded, mountain-bound village is alive in summer with all the 
gaiety of youth, the altitude adding much to the exuberance 
of spirits ever manifest. 




Cliff Dwellings 

Manitou presents a remarkable attraction to those who are 
unable to visit the Cliff Dwellers' ruins at Mesa Verde, in the 
southern part of the State. Cliff dwellings have been con- 
structed with great care in their original form, and are so 
ingeniously assembled as to excite the favorable comment of 
expert archaeologists and others who have explored the ancient 
habitations of the prehistoric races, now easily accessible from 
Mancos. 

The Manitou ruins are easy of access, being but a five-minute 
ride or a ten-minute walk from the car line. To add to the 
interest which naturally attaches to these features, a group of 
Navajo Indians are present to amuse the visitors with their 
strange dances, fantastic costumes and wonderful arts of rug 
weaving and pottery making. 

Few more inspiring drives are possible than that from Colo- 
rado Springs northwest across the flower-strewn mesa toward 
Glen Eyrie and the Garden of the Gods. Out on the high 
plateau the dry, thin air tingles with electricity and the sky is 
a cloudless azure. To our right the plains lie in illimitable 



expanse. Before us Pike's Peak arises in solemn majesty, with 
neighboring elevations apparently as high. We note the haze 
upon the summit and the barrenness of desolation that marks 
it; lower down the timber line, above which nothing appears 
to grow, and lower still the various forms of vegetation. 

These silent mountains are always company. 

But see! the Garden of the Gods! Here, indeed, one's 
fancy may run free. Untrammeled by human limitations Nature 
has outdone herself. If this be not the garden of the Gods, 
*twas here they must have toiled to lend enchantment to the earth. 

We see here rocks in strangely garish colors, red and yellow 
and white, in enormous masses, lofty buttresses, towers and 
pinnacles, besides formations of lesser size, in fantastic shapes 
that readily lend themselves to the imagination, and in which one 
sees as many pictures as in a fire of coals on a winter night, or 
the clouds of heaven in a summer sky. 

Geologists tell us that these are sedimentary strata, which 
once lay horizontally upon the mountain's breast, but that some 
gigantic convulsion of Nature threw them into their present 
perpendicular attitude, with their roots, as it were, extending 




Gateway— Garden of the Gods 



hundreds of feet underground. The erosion of water, when 
this was all the Gulf of Mexico, accounts for the shaping. 

The Garden of the Gods is, perhaps, better known and more 
intimately associated, in the popular mind, with the scenic wonders 
of Colorado than any other of the multitude of her attractions. 

The curious formations are so like the animals and structures 
for which they were named, many years since, as to arouse 
suspicion that man has had some hand in their shaping. 

For generations these have been sources of interest and 
wonder and so they will continue for generations to come. 

The gateway to the Garden is really the grandest feature, 
its great rocks rising perpendicularly on either side to twice the 
height of Niagara, framing in rich terra cotta a most entrancing 
picture of the blue and tawny peak, apparently only a little way 
on the other side. But once within the majestic portals, gifted 
with a lively imagination, one may see without end the grotesque 
or grand, as the spirit moves. 




A Try sting Place in Stratton Park 




Here are old trees, tall oaks and gnarled pines, 
That stream with gray-green mosses ; here the ground 
Was never trenched by spade, and flowers spring up 
Unsown, and die ungathered. 

— Bryant. 




HERE are innumerable interesting trips which 
may be made to points in the vicinity, all easy of 
access, each with its own peculiar attractions. 

Stratton Park is four and a half miles south- 
west of Colorado Springs, at the entrance to 
North and South Cheyenne canons. It is a beautiful pleasure 
ground dotted with several small lakes, where band concerts and 
other excellent attractions are provided. Electric cars carry one 
directly to the entrance. 

Palmer Park, a natural beauty spot, the gift of the late 
Gen. William J. Palmer, is two miles northeast of Colorado 
Springs. It is intersected with fine driveways and bridle paths, 
affording one of the finest views of Pike's Peak, the great Front 
Range and the vast plains. Two magnificent boulevards con- 
nect it with Colorado Springs. 

The entrances to North and South Cheyenne canons are five 
miles southwest of Colorado Springs and may be reached by 
electric railway, affording frequent service. North Cafion, with 
its three-mile drive, open to the public, discovers numerous 
cascades and wonderful rock formations and leads into Bear 
Creek Canon drive. An admission fee is required by the owners 
of the South Caiion, which, among other interesting features, 
includes the Seven Falls. 



Cheyenne Mountain is a favorite spot. A carriage road 
climbs the mountain to Seven Lakes and the summit of Pike's 
Peak, affording magnificent views. 

Ruxton and Williams' canons, Cave of the Winds and Ute 
Pass are five miles west of Colorado Springs. The trail to 
Pike' s Peak traverses Ruxton Canon. The Grand Caverns are 
in Ute Pass, and the Cave of the Winds, to which an admission 
fee is required, is in Williams' Canon. 

Glen Eyrie, the home of the late Gen. William J. Palmer, 
three and a half miles northwest of Colorado Springs, is 
open to the public. Rock formations similar to those in 
Garden of the Gods. Echo Rocks and Major Domo deserve 
special note. 

Roswell Park is two miles north of Colorado Springs. Fine 
horse and bicycle tracks, stables and grandstands. 

Monument Valley Park extends north from the Rock Island 
station two and a half miles. A most elaborate and beautiful 
parking system, with walks, lakes, falls, mineral springs, floral 
displays and pavilions, Japanese bridges, fountains, esplanades 
and Italian sunken basins. 

Bruin Inn, a romantic log cabin, located at the head of North 
Cheyenne Canon, offers rest and refreshment. 




Sangre de Crista Range 




A Typical Miner 

Broadmoor Casino is two and a half miles southwest of 
Colorado Springs, on Cheyenne Lake. It is a delightful resort, 
with boating, golf, mountain climbing, and is reached by carriage 
road and electric railway, with frequent service. 

The Cheyenne Mountain Country Club (Broadmoor) is 
splendidly equipped and provides tennis, baseball, cricket, polo, 
bowling and excellent golf links. Visitor's card may readily be 
obtained on proper introduction. 

The Town and Gown Golf Club is northeast of Colorado 
Springs. Extensive grounds. Bowling, golf links, croquet, 
cricket, polo and tennis. Visitor's card on proper introduction. 




The Casino — Broadmoor 




In the Glen 



One of Nature's Boulevards 

Bear Creek and North Cheyenne Circle Drive, a fine road, 
connecting the two scenic gorges, starting at entrance of North 
Cheyenne and coming out over the Bear Creek road and 
Colorado City boulevard, is most delightful. 

The Seven Lakes are mountain gems at an altitude of eleven 
thousand eight hundred feet. They are most conveniently 
reached by rail to Clyde station, thirty miles, thence by trail and 
carriage road three and a half miles. A popular camping 
ground w^ith good fishing. 

Crystal Park Trail is a new and wonderful bridle path giving 
extraordinary views. Crystal Park, fifteen hundred feet above 
Manitou, contains many beautiful crystals. 

Ute Pass resorts, reached by Colorado Midland Railway 
direct, or by stage connection, include Manitou, Cascade Caiion, 
Ute Park, Green Mountain Falls, Crystola, Woodland Park, 
Skelton's Mountain Ranch and Manitou Park, all notable and 
furnishing accommodations for summer tourists in hotels, cot- 
tages or tents. The pass abounds in rocky gorges and the 
scenery is remarkable. Occasional meadows and warm slopes 
are brilliant with wild flowers. During the summer, weekly 
and special **wild flower excursion" trains are run to Spinney, 



sixty miles west. The trains are composed of open observation 
cars and stop frequently to allow excursionists to gather wild 
flowers and secure pictures. At Cascade Caiion begins the 
wagon road to the summit of Pike's Peak. 

Pueblo has been called the ** Pittsburg of the West" because 
of the Bessemer plant of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, 
the large ore smelters and manufacturing plants located there. 

Situated at what might be termed the head of the rich Arkansas 
Valley, it is the market place for all of the products of this two- 
hundred-mile stretch of rich, irrigated farm land, with its alfalfa, 
melons, sugar beets, live stock, garden and dairy products and 
thrifty orchards. 

Pueblo is a thriving city, particularly fortunate in her climate, 
with three hundred sunshiny days per year and a temperature 
equable to a marked degree. There are numerous large hotels, 
several theaters, and medicinal springs, which are said to possess 
great therapeutic value. Many beautiful residences and attract- 
ive cottages, fine buildings and metropolitan conveniences, serve 
to make this busy city an interesting point to the tourist. 

The Rock Island Lines, extending from Colorado Springs 
southward, terminate at Pueblo, to which through service is 
operated from the East. 




Lake Clara — Pueblo 




The rocky summits, split and rent, 
Form'd turret, dome or battlement, 
Or seem' d fantastically set 
With cupola or minaret 
Wild crests as pagod ever decked. 
Or mosque of Eastern architect. 



— Scott. 




LTHOUGH there are at least twenty-five loftier 
mountain-tops in Colorado, Pike's Peak is the 
eminence which is first thought of in connec- 
tion with the Colorado Rockies. It is first to 
be inquired for by the new-comer and first to be 
pointed out by the experienced tourist or Coloradan. One 
reason for this is that from its position in the first eastern range 
it can be seen one hundred miles away, and its white top has 
been a landmark ever since its discoverer, after whom it is 
named, despairingly said that its top would probably never be 
trodden by mortal man. But to-day one may start from the 
foot of General Pike's statue in Colorado Springs and in less 
than three hours, with no more exertion than is necessary to 
board an ordinary railway train, find himself at the very summit. 
So far as mere ascent is concerned, Pike's Peak has been as 
thoroughly conquered as any mountain of equal height. There 
are several ways in which the summit may be reached — on foot, 
on horseback, by burro, by carriage or by rail, but the last is by 
far the easiest and most expeditious. 

One may travel over several hundred thousand miles of steel 
rails in this country and find nothing like the eight and three- 
fourths miles of cog railroad which connects Manitou with the 




Eagle River Canon 

top of Pike's Peak, and which to traverse is one of the sensa- 
tions, as it is one of the privileges, of a lifetime. 

Think of it ! To be steadily, irresistibly and safely carried 
up an average grade of eight hundred and forty-six feet to the 
mile till you are nearly three miles above the level of the sea! 

The cars, each seating fifty passengers, are so constructed 
that the wonderful view is not in the least obstructed, and the 
seats are so arranged that the occupants have a level sitting at 
all times. In the ascent the locomotive pushes from behind, 
and in the descent precedes the train. It is probably the safest, 
as well as the most astonishing, railroad in the world. There is 
nothing, in fact, that need deter anyone able to travel at all 
from making this trip — one never to be forgotten. 

The view of the plains and the adjacent mountains, the 
peaks and canons, vegetation and no vegetation — "great rough 
seams in the mountain-sides, as if fire and water had been at 
work for ages to waste and overturn; dreary areas of red and 
brown and gray rocks; masses of timber; bits of green in the 



far-down valley; Nature everywhere in her original forms, and 
her abounding waste of wealth" ; all this, increasing in extent, 
in interest and in majesty as the car goes upward, forms one 
grand crescendo of vision, such as under no other circumstances 
ever falls to the lot of man to behold. 

There is one trip out of Colorado Springs which is the quin- 
tessence of Colorado — mountains, plains, rocks, canons, rail- 
roads, beauty, sublimity, thrills, wonder, admiration, geological 
phenomena, and the greatest gold-mining camp on the continent 
— all reduced to a ten-hour limit. 

The great gold-mining camp of Cripple Creek is reached 
from Colorado Springs by standard-gauge railroad. The scenery 
is grand and inspiring, view upon view following with dramatic 
rapidity — a magnificent glimpse of the plains is had, of Colorado 
Springs, its beautiful southern suburb, Broadmoor, Cheyenne 
Canon, and from one spot the smoking chimneys of Pueblo, 
forty-five miles away. Observation cars permit full enjoyment 
of the scenic grandeur. 

Cripple Creek is one of the most important mining districts 
in the world, exceeding in the value of its output anything in 




On the Way to Cripple Creek 




Sheepshead Rock — Big Thompson Canon 

California or Alaska. In most camps gold is only a by-product, 
more actual value resulting from the deposits of lead and silver 
with w^hich the gold is mingled; but here gold is supreme. 
Purely, therefore, from a spectacular point of view, or that of 
the tourist, this country, high in air, presents the most interesting 
industrial exhibit on the globe. Here, hidden deep in the granite' s 
close embrace, is the treasure for which so many human beings 
the world over are ceaselessly striving. Far beyond the simple 
appliances of the old-time miner, and as impossible to reach with 
unaided human hands as if it were in the very center of the earth, 
these treasures of the mountains yield themselves only to the 




A South Park Vista 



impact of drills driven by electricity. Enormous power and 
enormous capital are both necessary to work the mines of Victor 
and Cripple Creek. Everything is on a big scale — the machin- 
ery, the force of workmen, the management generally. 

Nowhere in all the world is it possible to inspect so com- 
fortably and conveniently the workings of an extensive gold 
camp as in this wonderful section. And what surprises the 
towns themselves afford! The mental picture of rough cabins 
clustered in confusion and disorder on the mountain-sides finds 
denial in substantial buildings and regular streets, with the loca- 
tion of the mines indicated by strictly modern structures. 

To see the location of practically all the principal mines in 
this district one has only to take, on arriving at Cripple Creek, 
the high-line division of the electric terminal to Victor and 
return to Cripple Creek the other way. This can be done easily 
during the few hours spent there; and, in addition, the view of 
the great Sangre de Cristo range of mountains, fifty miles away, 
from the electric car line, would be worth all the trouble, had 
one till then been blindfolded. Gold mines, such as are found 
here, afford rare interest, but that view of the mountains is the 
climax, the apex, the acme of this great excursion. 




Breckenridge 




Clear Creek Canon 




That hamlet now a city is, 

Its log-built huts are palaces ; 

* * * * And overlooks on either hand 

A rich and many-watered land. 

— Whittier. 




N erecting their log cabins in the meadows where 
Cherry Creek joins the South Platte River, the 
first seekers after gold in Colorado, along in 
1858, builded better than they knew, for no finer 
site for a great city could have been selected. 
Here were broad, level meadows, stretching in gentle slopes to 
the streams, and constituting an ideal location for a center of 
commercial activity. Denver is near enough to the mountains 
to get the full benefit of the breezes that in summer blow steadily 
from their snowy heights, and far enough away from them to 
escape the uncertain weather conditions, where the air currents 
from the plains meet those from the peaks. The mountains 
rise to the west of the city and their ragged outline may be 
followed against the sky for more than two hundred miles — from 
Pike's Peak on the south to Laramie Peaks on the north. 

Denver, which is the capital of, and the largest city in 
Colorado, is one mile above sea-level, and was named after 
Gen. James W. Denver, first governor of Kansas Territory, 
of which Colorado was then a part. 

It has nearly two hundred miles of street railway lines, nearly 
three hundred churches and public school buildings and eleven 
colleges and academies. Here are a public library of one 
hundred thousand volumes, several metropolitan daily papers, 
some twenty banks and trust companies, and a number of 




Denver 

theaters and attractive summer gardens ; more than twenty clubs, 
and some twenty-three hospitals and asylums are maintained, and 
.it claims the finest summer climate of any city in America. 

There are innumerable beautiful residences, and these are so 
general that the statement has been made that no city in the 
country can boast of so large a proportion of attractive and artis- 
tic homes. The public parks, with a total area of more than a 
thousand acres and easy of access, are maintained with great 
care and few cities can offer their equal in beauty and interest. 

Denver has more good hotels than any American city of 
twice its size, and, if you except San Francisco and Los Angeles, 
a greater number of interesting one-day excursion trips than any 
other city on the continent. 

The quickest and, in many respects, the best way for the 
tourist to see Denver is by means of the Seeing Denver" cars 
and automobiles, which make the circuit of the city frequently 




From Capitol Hill 

each day during the summer season. These cars may be taken 
at convenient points, and take one not only through the city 
itself, but through the suburbs. The distance covered is about 
twenty miles and the expense involved is within the most modest 
means. A competent man accompanies the car and points out 
objects of interest. 

Many of the most interesting localities in Colorado may be 
visited, and some of the grandest scenery in the entire world 
viewed in the course of a day's journey from Denver. Several 
of the one-day excursion trips from Denver are suggested in the 
following pages. The information as to the hours of departure 
of trains from Denver should, of course, be verified after arrival 
in that city. 

McClellan Mountain offers great interest. A train carrying 
observation cars leaves Denver over the Clear Creek branch of 
the Colorado & Southern Railway at convenient morning hours, 





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arriving at the summit of Mount McClellan, seventy miles 
distant by rail from Denver, in early afternoon. The scenery 
is extraordinarily varied. The far-famed Georgetown Loop 
and mining town of Silver Plume are features of the trip. From 
Silver Plume the route is via the Argentine Central Railway to 
Mount McClellan, whose summit has an elevation of more than 
fourteen thousand feet. This is the highest regularly operated 
railway on the continent. Gray's Peak, whose summit is but a 
short walk from where the train stops, is higher than Pike's Peak 
and is to be the terminus of this road, which is known as the 
Gray's Peak Route. All of the most prominent peaks, mighty 
giants of the Rockies, including Long's, Evans', Pike's, and 
the Mount of the Holy Cross, are visible, as well as some in 
Wyoming — more than a hundred in all. At the summit of the 
Argentine Central Line is located the Perpetual Ice Palace, one 
of Nature' s wonders, amid banks of everlasting snow. Saturday 
afternoon **Sunset Excursions" are a pleasing feature of this line. 
The Sunrise Peak Passenger Tramway offers to the visitor 
to McClellan Mountain a thrill and a series of pictures never to 
be forgotten. An aerial railway, the splendid construction of 



which is one of the world's engineering achievements, is operated 
from Silver Plume to McClellan's Sunrise Peak. The cars, 
each accommodating four persons, are suspended from heavy 
steel cables and make the round trip between Silver Plume 
and the summit, a distance of a little more than one and one- 
fourth miles, in one hour. More than three thousand feet 
vertically are overcome en route. 

'*The Switchback" train leaves Denver over the Clear 
Creek branch of the Colorado & Southern Railway at about 
eight in the morning, arriving at Central City, the terminus of 
the forty-mile journey, before noon. Returning, it reaches 
Denver in time for dinner. 

Estes Park is a beautiful natural park and mountain resort, 
northwest of Denver. Visitors may leave Denver over the 
Lyons branch of the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in 
the morning, arriving at Lyons (forty-eight miles) before noon, 
and at the park (by stage twenty miles) before night. Or 
preferably, take the Colorado & Southern morning train from 
Denver to Loveland, where direct connection is made with a 
well-equipped automobile line, covering an interesting route of 
practically the same distance as others mentioned in three hours. 
Good fishing, excellent hotel accommodations. It is a splendid 
place to rest for a week, a fortnight or a month. 




Mount Evans and Mount Rosalie 




Shawnee Lodge — Platte Canon 

One of the most satisfactory one-day excursion trips in the 
State, and a trip the Colorado visitor should not fail to take, is 
up the *' Switzerland Trail." The train leaves Denver over 
the Fort Collins branch of the Colorado & Southern Railway in 
the morning, arriving at Eldora and Ward, the sky-high termi- 
nals of the Denver, Boulder & Western Railroad's "Switzerland 
Trail" at noon. The distance from Denver is about sixty 
miles. Passengers may return to Denver in time for dinner. 

The train for the Platte Canon resorts leaves Denver over 
the Leadville line of the Colorado & Southern Railway at about 
eight in the morning; arriving at Grant, distance sixty-six miles, 
before noon, the train continues its journey over the mountains 
to Leadville. Platte Canon is famous for its many pleasant 
summering spots and excellent trout fishing. Passengers by the 
morning train for Grant or intermediate stations can be back in 
Denver before dark. A very considerable percentage of Colo- 
rado's visitors make a point of spending several days in Platte 
Canon. 

For the trip ''Around the Horn," train leaves Denver over 
the Fort Collins branch of the Colorado & Southern Railway at 



about eight in the morning, and passing through Boulder, 
Longmont, Loveland, Fort Collins and other prosperous towns 
in the most flourishing agricultural section of Northern Colorado, 
reaches Greeley, the home of the "Greeley potato," and the 
terminus of the outward journey of ninety-nine miles, about 
noon. After a stop for luncheon, passengers are returned to 
Denver, reaching that city in time for dinner. An exceedingly 
interesting trip, for the reason that it gives visitors an opportunity 
to see something of the agricultural wealth of Colorado. 

Boulder is the seat of the Colorado State University and 
meeting place of the Colorado Chautauqua, as well as the center 
of the northern oil fields of Colorado. Golden (seat of the State 
School of Mines and location of the State Industrial School), 
Morrison (location of the State Industrial School for Girls) and 
Fort Collins (seat of the Colorado State Agricultural College) 
are all within an hour or two's ride of Denver, over branches 
of the Colorado & Southern Railway. Boulder and Golden are 
also reached via the Union Pacific and the Denver, Lakewood 
& Golden (trolley) railroads respectively. The Denver & 
Interurban Railroad will inaugurate, early in the season, superb 
electric service between Denver and Boulder. 



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Eldorado Springs is twenty-seven miles from Denver on 
the Colorado & Southern Railway — but an hour' s ride — adjacent 
to Boulder. Nestled in picturesque South Boulder Canon, it 
reminds the Old World tourist more, perhaps, of a typical Swiss 
village than any other town in the State. 

The scenery here is superb, combining impressive mountain 
height, sparkling waterfall and all the rest that is beautiful and 
grand in Colorado landscapes. Natural warm swimming-pools 
are an added attraction. 

The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific, locally known as 
*'The Moffat Road," and now in operation a distance of two 
hundred and fourteen miles between Denver and Steamboat 
Springs, crosses the crest of the continental divide at an eleva- 
tion of eleven thousand six hundred and sixty feet, amid perpetual 
snow. This provides a favorite day' s outing, replete with interest. 
The trip takes the tourist to the midst of great banks of snow, 
during the hottest days of summer, in a little more than three 
hours' ride. Tolland, where the greensward of Boulder Park 



affords a pleasant picnic ground for those who wish to combine 
this pastime with a scenic excursion, and Arrow are intermediate 
stations forty-seven and seventy-seven miles, respectively, from 
Denver. 

Steamboat Springs, notwithstanding its former lack of railway 
facilities, has long been famous for the curative properties of the 
hot and cold waters from its more than a hundred springs. It 
is the gateway to a vast territory of agricultural possibilities, and 
to the forests beyond, in which wild game may be found in 
abundance. 

"The Moffat Road" affords a short route to the big-game 
country of Northwestern Colorado, and the region made so 
easily accessible offers excellent fishing. The waters in that 
vicinity have been seldom visited by fishermen. Rare sport is 
promised to the angler who explores the Grand and Yampa 
rivers and their tributaries. 

These short excursions comprise one of Colorado's great 
delights and afford unusual combinations of life with every 
metropolitan convenience, and among the wilds, surrounded by 
Nature' s beauties. The expense in each instance is compara- 
tively nominal. 




In the Snow— July 




An Ideal Camping Site 





lies beyond. 



Ah, why 
Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect 
God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore 
Only among the crowd, and under roofs 
That our frail hands have raised. 

— Bryant. 

ENVER, Colorado Springs and Manitou are not 
the only places in the State which the visitor 
should see. They are not in the mountains. 
They are only the gateways to an empire of 
delightful resorts and ideal camping sites which 
It is not possible to more than briefly mention a 
few points of special interest. 

Overlooking the town of Buena Vista and the broad valley 
of the Arkansas, the Collegiate Range, Mount Princeton, Mount 
Yale, Mount Harvard, all three attaining an altitude of more 
than fourteen thousand feet, make an imposing spectacle. 

Forty-six miles beyond, the Colorado Midland Railway 
crosses the mountains over Hagerman Pass through the famous 
Busk Tunnel. The line at this point is a marvel of engineering 
skill and the scene both on the ascent and descent of the 
mountain is one of panoramic grandeur. 

Colorado Midland trains for Buena Vista, Leadville, Glen- 
wood Springs, and the numberless camping, fishing and hunting 
resorts intermediate, leave Denver morning and evening, passing 
through Colorado Springs, Manitou, Ute Pass and the famous 
South Park region around Leadville, Hell Gate, and through 
Red Rock Canon. 

The Royal Gorge is a stupendous cleft in the Front Range 
of the Rockies, through which rushes the turbulent Arkansas 




In the Royal Gorge 

River, and is utilized by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, to 
the delight of all who pass that way. This climax of all the 
grandeur of the Grand Canon of the Arkansas lies midway in 
this wonderful chasm, and the view obtained from the trains as 
they cross the famous hanging bridge, where the perpendicular 
walls of the canon rise to a height of nearly three thousand feet 
above the track, is one long to be remembered. 

Denver & Rio Grande trains through the Royal Gorge leave 
Denver at convenient hours in the morning, passing through 
Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Florence, Caiion City and other 
interesting places. They arrive at Parkdale station at the west 
end of *'the Gorge" in ample time for the visitor to board an 
eastbound train, due in Denver the same evening. 

Salida, a division point for four branches of the Denver 
& Rio Grande Railroad; Buena Vista; Leadville, the largest 
and most famous silver-mining camp in the world; Tennessee 
Pass, one of the highest railway passes in Colorado; the Canon 
of the Grand River; Glenwood Springs, the principal watering- 
place of the State; Grand Junction, at the junction of the Grand 



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and Gunnison rivers, and many other points of interest in Western 
Colorado, are all on the main line of the Denver & Rio Grande 
Railroad to Salt Lake City. Nearly all the localities that have 
been named are also reached by the Colorado Midland Railway, 
while Colorado & Southern trains reach Leadville over passes of 
stupendous height and through many prosperous mining camps, 
with a branch through Alpine Tunnel to Gunnison. 

** Around the Circle" — a thousand miles through the heart 
of the Rockies — comprises a four days' tour over the Denver & 
Rio Grande Railroad, which embraces its most famous scenic 
features. The journey is one of constant interest, leading south 
to Cuchara Junction, over La Veta Pass to Alamosa, in the San 
Luis Valley, thence by the narrow gauge to Antonito, thence 
west, the railroad continually crossing and recrossing the border 
between Colorado and New Mexico, through Toltec Gorge 
and other interesting localities to Durango. From Durango 
there are two routes northward to Ridgway — one around the 
great Ophir Loop and through Telluride and other noted min- 
ing camps; the other through the beautiful Animas Caiion to 




Trout Lake 

Silverton and Red Mountain, and over the famous stage line to 
Ouray, from which point the railroad is resumed to Ridgway. 
The ruins of the Cliff Dwellers, on the Mesa Verde, are some 
twenty-five miles from Mancos, on the first-named route. 
They are reached after a wagon trip of fifteen miles and horse- 
back for ten miles, and the journey is not difficult. The ruins 
are wonderfully preserved and amply reward the visitor. From 
Ridgway the two Circle" trips are alike, through Montrose 
and the Black Canon of the Gunnison and past the famous 
Curecanti Needle. Traversing the Tomichi Valley and climbing 
the western slope of the Saguache range of mountains, over 
Marshall Pass, descending the eastern slope of the range, the 
train soon reaches Salida, where a standard-gauge train from 
Leadville is boarded and the journey to Denver through the 
Arkansas Valley and the Royal Gorge is completed. 

Glenwood Springs, in the estimation of a great many people, 
is the most attractive resort in Colorado. On the main lines of 
the Colorado Midland and the Denver & Rio Grande railroads, 
about three hundred miles west of Denver, it is reached by a 



twelve hours' ride from that city. One can leave Denver or 
Colorado Springs in the morning and be in Glenwood that 
evening; or, if preferred, take one of the night trains, arriving 
at Glenwood next morning. 

The location is unrivaled — in the very heart of the Rockies. 
The principal hotel, the Colorado," has no superior between 
Denver and the Pacific Coast. Hot weather is unknown; the 
climate is delightful and some of the best hunting and fishing in 
the Rocky Mountain region is to be found in the vicinity. Bear, 
deer and grouse are numerous. The lover of outdoor sport is 
never at a loss for something to do, for at Glenwood the facili- 
ties for lawn tennis, golf, riding, driving and polo are as good 
as the best. 

Glenwood' s greatest attraction, however, is its swimming 
pool, more than fifty thousand square feet in area, and filled 
with water of a temperature of about 90 degrees. The pool is 
in use the year 'round. 

In cold weather the vapor from the water rises and protects 
the head. Warm, covered passages lead from the bathhouses to 
the pool, making it possible to enter the water without exposure 
to the cold air. As novel a sight as one would wish to see is a 
group of bathers enjoying themselves in the pool at Glenwood, 
bathing in the open air during a snowstorm, and with entire safety. 



Glenwood Springs 




Pool and Bath-house — Glenwood 

In its vapor cave baths Glenwood Springs has another unique 
attraction. The caves are practically as Nature left them and 
are heated by springs coming out of the rocks. The tempera- 
ture is about 112 degrees. The bath-house adjoining the caves 
is equipped with showers, douches, shampoo slabs and other 
necessary appliances. 

The Hotel Colorado at Glenwood is not a sanitarium, and 
yet it is probably true that one is much more likely to be bene- 
fited by a stay of two or three weeks there than if one spent the 
same length of time at a sanitarium. The hotel has a compe- 
tent resident physician, and if one wishes one can regulate one's 
habits and diet in such a way as to materially add to the benefits 
for which the climate is responsible. The hotel usually opens 
for the summer season about May fifteenth. 

The Fairy Caves, fourteen hundred feet above and directly 
behind the hotel, are most appropriately named. They run for 
quite a distance into the mountain and are of much more than 
ordinary interest. They are grotesque chambers, lighted by 
electric lights, with stalactites hanging from the ceilings. The 
caves are easily reached on foot or by horseback or carriage. 



There is almost no end to the opportunities for mountain 
climbing and compensating exploration. Excellent, sure-footed 
saddle horses are easily obtainable. Well-defined trails, dis- 
closing interesting features at every turn, lead into the mount- 
ains, and day after day may be spent delightfully and without 
repetition in the wilds which lie so close to the luxury of a 
modern hostelry. 

The Taylor State Road, running for fifteen miles from 
Glenwood Hot Springs to Dotsero, through the famous Glen- 
wood Canon of the Grand River, affords a most beautiful drive 
and view of wild mountain scenery. No-Name and Grizzly 
creeks, which come tumbling down the mountains, empty into 
the Grand River two miles and five miles respectively from 
Glenwood. Shoshone Falls are eight miles distant. A trail up 
Dead Horse Gulch, just beyond, leads to the wonderful Hang- 
ing Lake on the side of the canon, twelve hundred feet above 
the Grand River. Pen cannot picture the delights of this 
mountain climb or the perfect beauty of the lake itself, but that 
the reward for the effort is ample is the never-failing verdict. 




Moss-Covered Walls of Hanging Lake 




Granite Canon 





Good-by to Pain and Care! I take mine ease to-day; 

Here where these sunny waters break 

And ripples this keen breeze, I shake 

All burdens from the heart, all weary thoughts away. 

— Whittier. 

CARCELY more than a glance at the map is 
required to understand why the Rock Island - 
Frisco-Chicago & Eastern Illinois Lines comprise 
the most desirable routes to Colorado. 

Their Eastern gateways — Chicago, St. Louis, 
Memphis — provide union depots where connections from all 
points are conveniently and expeditiously made with their direct 
lines to the Rockies. 

The territory traversed possesses unusual interest. Tickets 
from Chicago may be routed through St. Louis on the return 
trip, if desired, affording an opportunity to diversify the journey 
and enjoy the excellent service of the model Chicago -St. Louis 
line — the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad — operating three 
trains daily in each direction. 

Of particular importance to the tourist are the exclusive 
facilities in Colorado which these lines provide. 

The Rock Island enters both Colorado Springs and Denver 
directly, obviating the necessity of going through one point to 
reach the other — although one may do so, if desired — and 
affording the tourist who is ready to return from Colorado Springs 
or Denver ample direct service without loss of time and addi- 
tional travel. 

The standard of excellence to which the train service of the 
Rock Island -Frisco- Chicago & Eastern Illinois Lines is main- 
tained insures a maximum of comfort en route. New reclining 




The Rocky Mountain Limited 

chair cars, coaches and observation -buffet cars have recently 
been placed in commission, while the Pullman sleeping cars are 
of the latest and most improved type. 

No detail to insure comfort, speed and safety has been 
omitted from the w^ork of construction and maintenance. The 
lines are well built with heavy rail and carefully ballasted with 
crushed rock and gravel, forming a solid and substantial roadbed 
as free as possible from dust. 

The Rock Island's famous "Rocky Mountain Limited" is 
pre-eminently the finest and most complete train between Chicago 
and Colorado. Its equipment is electric lighted, comprising 
chair car, drawing-room sleeping cars, unique buffet- library - 
observation car and mission -style diner. A stenographer, 
whose services are at the disposal of patrons, free of charge, 
and by whose assistance unfinished office detail may be com- 
pleted, and a barber and valet to press garments, insure unusual 
attention and a character of service that is continually the object 
of flattering comment by experienced travelers. 

Several other splendid trains operated daily between Chicago, 
St. Louis, Kansas City and Denver, Colorado Springs and 
Pueblo afford ample and satisfactory service with most convenient 
hours of departure. The journey may be made with only one 
night out. 

From the Southeast — Memphis, Little Rock, Hot Springs, 
Birmingham, Atlanta, Macon and Brunswick — the Frisco 



** Southeastern Limited" gives through service, far superior to 
that afforded by any other Hne. A Pullman sleeping car of the 
latest design runs throughout the year from Brunswick or 
Jacksonville via Birmingham, Memphis and Kansas City to 
Colorado Springs, with connecting car on same train for Denver, 
giving through service, without change, from the Atlantic Coast 
to the Rocky Mountains. 

From Birmingham to Kansas City the "Southeastern Lim- 
ited" carries an observation -cafe car in which meals are served 
a la carte. Passengers from all points in the Southeast can 
easily make connection with the ' Southeastern Limited ' ' through 
car at Atlanta, Birmingham or Memphis, and the connection is 
particularly advantageous for those who leave New Orleans in 
the morning. 

The dining car service of the Rock Island -Frisco Lines enjoys 
an acknowledged superiority, which is constantly maintained. 

Through car service is also maintained over the Choctaw 
District of Rock Island Lines between Memphis, Tenn., and 
Amarillo, Tex., where connection is made with Fort Worth 
& Denver City Railway to Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver. 

Whichever train is used, the passenger may feel assured that 
every care has been taken for his comfort and convenience. 




Well Built with Heavy Rails — Carefully Ballasted 



While very low fares are in effect to Colorado, Utah and 
the Pacific Coast almost every month of the year, this season 
offers special attractions. The Alaska -Yukon -Pacific Exposi- 
tion at Seattle, with a visit to Colorado and Yellowstone Park 
en route, presents unusual possibilities. Liberal stop-over and 
diverse-route privileges, especially attractive to the sightseer, a 
long return limit, and low fares for side trips to Yellowstone 
Park and every nearby point of interest en route are important 
features to the tourist and are provided generously by Rock 
Island -Frisco -Chicago & Eastern Illinois Lines. 

Full particulars as to fares, service, etc., will be promptly 
furnished on application to any of the representatives listed on 
another page. 

The passenger representatives of the Rock Island -Frisco 
Lines will be found conveniently located in Denver, Colorado 
Springs, Pueblo, Salt Lake City, Portland and Seattle. 

They are pleased at all times to assist in planning interesting 
side trips, and in otherwise placing their facilities at the disposal 
of patrons. Mail may be addressed in their care when desired. 




On the Valley Road 





Wise was the choice which led our sires 
To kindle here their household fires. 

— Whittier. 

T is not the purpose of this booklet to do more 
than direct the attention of the reader to the 
unequaled attractions of Colorado. If it serves 
to awaken a desire to get away from routine and 
enjoy the delights of a real vacation, such as 
Colorado alone offers, its mission has been fulfilled. 

In passing, however, it may not be amiss to briefly answer a 
query or two which will naturally arise in the mind of the 
tourist. 

To one whose conception of Colorado is that of mighty 
peaks and yawning canons only, the fact that it has under a high 
degree of cultivation an area about the size of the State of 
Connecticut will prove something of a surprise. 

When one realizes that Colorado has twenty-five thousand 
square miles of coalfields, and that approximately fifty millions 
of dollars in gold, silver, lead and copper are yielded by Colo- 
rado's mines annually, it is amazing to learn that the value of 
the farm products very materially exceeds the result of her 
mineral activity. 

There are in Colorado considerably more than three million 
acres now under cultivation and increasing in productive value 
each year. 

There is ample water for irrigating purposes, and above two 
million acres are brought into astonishing productiveness in 
this way. 

Colorado is a State of constant and happy surprises. 

5 




A Colorado Wheatfield 

Who can forget the luscious Rocky Ford melons, the 
delicious peaches, plums, apples and pears and the Greeley 
potato? Here they attain such perfection as is seldom found, 
and in bounteous quantity. 

Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of potatoes are 
shipped from Greeley alone every year. 

Thousands of acres are devoted to peas, which are distributed 
throughout the civilized world, at fancy prices. 

These products play a conspicuous part in Colorado's agri- 
cultural wealth, but are not alone. Tomatoes, celery, asparagus 
and other vegetables thrive and produce wonderfully. 

Wheat, oats, barley and alfalfa seem to outdo themselves in 
generous yields. 

The introduction of the sugar beet marked an epoch in 
Colorado's agricultural history and proved the beginning of a 
profitable industry. Conditions are particularly favorable to its 
successful cultivation, and the soil possesses elements which give 
the product an unusually high percentage of saccharine matter. 

Irrigation projects are now under way which will enormously 
increase the acreage of this class of land. 

The most interesting, and at the same time, perhaps, the most 
spectacular undertaking of its kind in the world is that which is 



rapidly nearing completion in the southwestern part of the State. 
The surplus waters of the Gunnison are taken in a tunnel beneath 
a mountain range for six miles and used to bring into fruitfulness 
approximately one hundred and forty thousand acres in the 
Uncompahgre Valley. Much of this is well adapted for fruit 
raising, but it is all productive and commands high prices. 

Excellent horses and cattle are raised in abundance under 
most favorable conditions. 

Territory which a few years ago was considered of but little, 
if any, value, except for such mineral as it might yield, is coming 
under cultivation and values are increasing rapidly. 

In the eastern part of the State are millions of acres which 
have, until recently, been considered useless, but which may be 
profitably farmed by a system of dry culture. Within the last 
few years nearly a million acres have been put in cultivation 
under the Campbell system of dry farming, and very satisfactory 
results have been obtained. 

The interest which has been aroused promises to continue, 
and it bids fair to be but a very few years before this vast acreage 
of **dry farm" land is dotted on every hand by thrifty farms, 
each adding its quota of success and participating freely in the 
prosperity which seems assured. 



.^■^^^^^ 










W;-.y^m 



Or the ''Round-up'^ 




Wild crests as pagod ever deek'd" 




—The hills 
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales 
Stretching intensive quietness between; 
The venerable woods — rivers that move 
In majesty J and the complaining brooks 
That make the meadows green. 

— Bryant. 

Elevation of Mountain Peaks and Passes. 



FEET. 

Mount Massive 14,424 

Mount Elbert 14,421 

Sierra Blanca 14,390 

Mount Harvard 14, 375 

La Plata Mountain I4,342 

Gray's Peak I4,34i 

Mount Torrey 14,336 

Mount Evans (i) I4,330 

Mount Lincoln 14,297 

Mount Buckskin 14,296 

Uncompahgre Peak 14,289 

Long's Peak 14,271 

Quandary Peak 14,266 

Castle Mountain 14,259 

Mount Wilson 14,250 

Mount Antero 14.245 

Mount Shavano 14,239 

Mount Crestone 14,233 

Mount Princeton 14,196 

Mount Yale 14,187 

Mount Boss I4»i85 

Baldy Mountain 14, 1 76 

Mount of the Holy Cross . . .14,170 

Mount Lizard Head 14, 160 

Mount Sneffles 14,158 

Goats Mountain 14,132 

Pike's Peak 14, 108 

San Luis Mountain 14,100 

Mount Red Cloud 14,092 

Mount Culebra 14,069 



FEET. 

The Wetterhorn 14,069 

Mount Simpson 14,055 

Mount ^olus 14,054 

Needle Mountain 14,051 

Mount Sherman 14,048 

Mount Humboldt 14,041 

Mount Stewart 14,032 

Mount Handle 14,008 

Mount McClellan 14,007 

Mount Maroon 14,003 

Mount Capitol 13, 997 

Snowmass Mountain 13,970 

Pigeon Mountain 13,961 

Mount Grizzly 13,956 

Mount Ouray 13,956 

Horseshoe Mountain 13,912 

Mount Blane 13,905 

Mount Frustrum 13, 893 

Pyramid Mountain 13,885 

Silver Heels Mountain 13,855 

Mount Haynes 13,832 

Mount Arkansas 13,807 

Mount Hamilton 13,800 

Mount R. G, Pyramid 13, 773 

Mount Rowter i3,75o 

Mount Ptarmigan 13,746 

Mount Gibson 13,729 

Spanish Peaks 13,620 — 12,720 

Mount Silesia 13,699 

Mount Evans (2) 13,650 



FEET. 

Mount Oso 13,640 

Mount Grayback I3»6i5 

Mount Rosalie 13, 575 

Mount Guyot 13,565 

Mount King Solomon 13,550 

Trinchera Mountain 13,546 

Mount Buffalo 13, 541 

Mount White Rock 13,532 

Mount Arapahoe 13,520 

Mount Dunn 13, 502 

Mount Dolores 13, 502 

Cottonwood Pass 13, 500 

Mount Kendall 13,480 

Sultan Mountain 13,336 

Argentine Pass 13,286 

James' Peak 13,283 

Mount Homestake 13,227 



FEET. 

Mount Hunchback 13, i33 

Mount Sheridan 1 2, 785 

Tarryall Pass 12,176 

Alpine Pass 11,606 

Breckenridge Pass 11,503 

Berthoud Pass ii,349 

Fremont Pass 11,330 

Ute Pass 11,200 

Bellevue Pass 11,000 

Marshall Pass 10,856 

Hayden Pass 10,780 

Tennessee Pass 10,240 

Cochetopa Pass 10,032 

Cumbres 10,01 5 

Trout Greek Pass 9.346 

La Veta Pass 9,242 

Poncha Pass 9»o59 



Mosquito Pass 13,185 

Seventy-two unnamed peaks between 13,500 and 14.300 feet in 
height are not in this list. 




Lake George 



Elevation of Lakes. 



NAME. FEET. 

Upper Chicago Lake 13,000 

Middle Chicago Lake 11,900 

Seven Lakes 11,806 

Lower Chicago Lake 11,600 

Cottonwood Lake 10, 700 

Evergreen Lakes 10,500 



NAME. FEET. 

Loch I vanhoe 10, 204 

Green Lakes 10,000 

Trout Lake 9,802 

Twin Lakes 9,357 

Grand Lakes 8,153 

Palmer Lake 7,237 




Gray and Torrey Peaks 
Population and Elevation of Towns. Census 1900. 



PLACE. POP. FEET. 

Alamosa i , 500* 7, 546 

Antonito 357 7,888 

Aspen 3,303 7,775 

Black Hawk 1,200 8,032 

Boulder 12,000* 5,335 

Breckenridge 976 9,524 

Buena Vista 1,100* 7,968 

Canon City 6,500 5,344 

Colorado Springs. 35,000* 5,989 

Colorado City, .. . 3,500* 6,077 

Corona 200 11,660 

Creede 938 8,852 

Central City 3,ii4 8,503 

Cripple Creek .. . 14,000* 9,396 

Del Norte 705 7,880 

Denver 200,000* 5, 198 

Durango 7,800* 6,520 

Estes Park 200* 7,500 

Fort Collins 3,054 4,975 

Florence 5,000* 5,199 

Granite 250 8,943 



PLACE. POP. FEET. 

Grand Junction . . 9,000* 4,583 

Gunnison 1,500* 7,680 

Glenwood Springs 1,500* 5,758 

Georgetown 1,418 8,476 

Greeley 7,000* 4,637 

Idaho Springs .. . 3,700* 7,543 

Las Animas 1,192 4,050 

Leadville 15,000* 10,200 

Longmont 5, 500* 4,935 

Manitou 1,400* 6,318 

Ouray 4,000* 7, 721 

Palmer Lake 200* 7,237 

Pueblo 65,000* 4,672 

Silverton 3,000* 9,300 

Salida 5,000* 7,050 

Silver Plume 775 9,176 

Telluride 3, 500* 8,756 

Trinidad 7,000* 6,994 

Victor 6,160 9,734 

Wagon Wheel Gap 100 8,449 
*Recent figures. 




Meet me in the green and amber glade 
Where golden glints of moted sunbeams swim. 

While the following list is reasonably accurate, it is not 
possible to guarantee the rates. Negotiations may be made in 
advance by addressing ' ' The Manager" in each instance. Many 
pleasant boarding places are necessarily omitted for want of 
specific names. 



TOWN 

Baileys 


POSTOFFICE 

.Baileys 


ALTI- 
TUDE 

7714 


HOTELS 

. Kiowa Lodge 

.Mt. Vernon 

.Fairview 

. Morrow House 

.Colo. Sanitarium .. 

. Boulderado 

.The O'Connor 

.St. Julian Hotel.... 

.The Bays 

.St. Clair 

.Cottonwood Spiings 

.Riverview 

.Buffalo 

.CasseU's 

. Lakeview Lodge . . . 

. Strathmore 

.St. James Hotel... 

.St. Cloud 

.Hot Spgs. Hotel.. .. 

.Cascade House 

.Ramona 

. East Holme 

.Sportsmen's Hotel. 

.Zang's Hotel 

. Antlers Park Hotel . 
.Antelope Park Club 

.Cliff House 

.Idlehour 

.Acacia Hotel 

.AltaVista 

.Antlers .'. 

.Depot Hotel 

.Elk Hotel 

.dough Hotel 

.New Alamo 

.Park 

.Plaza 

.Savoy 

.Spaulding 

.The Joyce 

.Grand Valley Hotel 
.Glen Beulah Park. 


CAPAC- 
ITY 

50 . 

30 . 

30 . 

35 . 
100 . 
175 . 
100 . 

35 . 

75 , 

50 . 

50 . 

50 . 

30 . 
100 . 

30 . 
100 . 

25 . 

'50 ! 

75 . 
125 

40 . 

75 . 

60 . 

20 . 

25 . 

40 . 

35 . 
200 . 
175 . 
450 . 

50 . 
150 . 
300 . 
350 . 
100 . 
225 . 

'200 . 
100 . 

"is ■ 


DAY 


RATES 

WEEK 

12.00 

10.00 to 12.00 


u 


10.00 up 


u 


. 12.00 up 


Boulder 


.Boulder 


5335 


!!!!!! '3.00 

2.50 


8.60 to 19.00 


M 




« 

Buena Vista.. 


u 

'.'Bnenft Vista.'.!.* 


"'7967 


!!75't'o"2.bb* 

..50 to 1.50 


10.00 up 


M 




« 


10.00 up 


Buffalo Park. 


.Buffalo 

;casseu's.' ■.::;.■; 

..Chase 

.Canon City 


6619 

"8530 
8503 
3775 

"742i 


!!!!!! 2.66'. 

!!!!!! '3.00' 

!!!!!! 'ibo' 
2.00 

On app 

.!!!!!!'2'.66! 

!!!!e.'i'.56 
....E. 1.00 

....E. 1.50 


9.00 up 


Cassell's .... 

Chase 

Canon City... 


12.00 up 

12.00 up 

,"'.' 7.66 ' 


« 


i' Cascade .'.'!!.*.'! 




M 




Cascade Cano 


........ 9.00 up 


« 


12.00 up 


CeboUa 

Creede 


..Cebolla 

..Amethyst 


7354 

8852 


!!!!!!! Yo'.oo" 

14.00 up 


u 


Antelope Spgs. . 




. . 15.00 


Cliff. 

u 

Colorado Spgs 


..Cliff. 

..Colorado Spgs'..' 

u 


6952 
"5992 


8.00 to 10.00 

8.00 to 10.00 

up 


« 




u 


12.50 to 14.00 


u 


II 




. . . 10.00 up 


M 


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....E. .75 

....E. l.OOi 

1.25 

2.50 

European. 

E. 1.50 

....E. 1.00 

1.50. 

Onapi 




U 


II 




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« 


" 




up 


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u 


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"4945 


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« 


up 


« 


..DeBeque.!!!!. 


up 


DeBeque 


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Rustic Lodges in the Rockies 



POSTOFFICE 



Denver Denver. 



5200 



HOTELS '^'^TY^' 

.Adams 400 , 

.Alamo 150 . 

.Albany 1000 , 

.Albert 300 . 

.American 400 , 

.Astor 100 , 

.Bell 200 , 

.Bclvidere 200 . 

.Boneventure 100 , 

.Broadway 200 . 

.Brown Palace ^....1000 . 

.Capitol HUl 100 , 

.Carlton 300 , 

.Columbia 300 . 

. Congress 200 . 

.Dewev 200 , 

.Drexel 250 , 

.Earl 100 , 

.Eleventh Avenue. . . 150 , 

.Elks 300 . 

. First Avenue 200 , 

.Grand Central 1.50 , 

.Gra>-mont 150 . 

.Hermes 100 , 

.Inland Inn 300 , 

. Inter Ocean 200 , 

.Kane 125 . 

. Lafayette 50 , 

. La Hermosa 150 , 

.Markham 250 

. Metropole 300 

.Midland 150 

. Munroe 200 

. Newport 125 



...E. 1.50 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

...E. 1.50 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

...A. 2.00 up 

...E. .75 up 

...E. .50 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

....\. 2.00 up 

...E. 1.50 up 

. . .E. .75 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

. ..E. .75 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

...E. .50 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

. . . .A.. 2.00 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

. ..E. .75 up 

. . .E. .75 up 

. . . E. .75 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

...E. .50 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

....\. 2.00 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

, . . E. .75 up 

Am. and Eu. On application. 

. ..E. .75 up 

...E. 1.00 up 

...E. 1.00 up 



On application. 



...E. 1.00 up 
...E. 1.00 up 
...E. .75 up 
.. E. 1.00 up, 
. . E. 1.00 up, 

Am. and Eu. 
. . E. 1.00 up 
. . E. 1.00 up 
.. E. 1.50 up 

Am. and Eu. On application. 

Am. and Eu. On application. 

. . E. 1.00 up , 

.. E. .50 up 

. . A. 2.50 up , 
.. E. .75 up, 

Am. and Eu. 
2.00..., 



On application. 



TOWN POSTOFFICE JUDE HOTELS ^j^ 

Denver Denver 5200 . .Oxford 500 

" " Plaza 150 

" . " Pleasanton 100 

" " PljTnouth 300 

" " St. Elmo 100 

" " St. Francis 200 

" " St. James 400 

" " St. Regis 150 

" " Savoy 900 

" " Shirley 900 

" " Shirley Annex 900 

" " Tremont 150 

" " Warren 250 

" " West Vernon 150 

" " Windsor 500 

" " AV.C.T.U.(Ladies)... 50 

Dillon Dillon 8885 . . Hamilton House. ... 40 

Estes Park Estes Park 7500 . . Estes Park Hotel. . . 100 12.00 to 25.00 

.Elkhorn Lodge 150 12.00 to 21.00 

.Long's Peak Inn . . . 40 10.00 to 18.00 

."Steads" 150 10.00 to 15.00 

" " Wind River Lodge.. 75 10.00 to 17.50 

" . " The Rustic 100 12.00 to 20.00 

Evergreen Evergreen Spruse Lodge 25 8.00 to 10.00 

" " Babcock Hotel 25 8.00 to 10.00 

Fort Collins . . .Fort Collins. . . . 4972 . .Tedmon House 50 5.00 up 

" " LindenHouse 50 2.00 

" " TheNorthern 150 2.50 up 

" Livermore Livermore House. . . 40 7.00 to 10.00 

Grand Lake. . . . Grand Lake. . . . 8400 . . Hotel Bellevue 50 12.00 to 15.00 

" " RusticHotel 35 10.00 

" " Kauffman House. . . 30 10.00 

" " Throckmorton Villa. 25 10.00 

" " Grand Lake House. . 35 10.00 

Georgetown. . . .Georgetown. . . . 8500 . .Hotel de Paris 50 2.50 

" " ElliotHouse 40 7.00 

" " Hotel Dewev 25 7.00 



" 9000 

iMoraine!.!!"! 8000 




CasselVs — Platte Canon 




The Antlers — Colorado Springs 



FOSTOFFICE 



ALTI- 
TCDK 



Greelev. Greeley. 4637 . . Camfield Hotel 250 

" ' " Albion Hotel 40 

Green Mt. FaUs Green 7734 . . Falls Hotel 250 

Glenisle Baileys 7826 . .Glenisle Inn 100 

Glenwood Spgs Glenwood Spgs 5758 . .Hotel Colorado 500 

" " Hotel Glenwood ... 150 

" " Kendrick Cottages . 150 

" " Grand Hotel 100 

" " Main's Cottages . . 75 

" " Palace Hotel 50 

" " The Denver 30 

" " Deep Lake Lodge . . 50 

" " Trappers' Lake 

Lodge 50 

Gunnison Gunnison 7685 . .La Veta Hotel 200 

" " Jointed Rod Resort. • 10 

" Almont. The Marston 100 

Idaho Springs. . Idaho Springs. . 7543 . . Club Hotel 75 

« " Portland Hotel 50 

lola lola 7434 ..lola Hotel 50 

Larkspur Larkspur 6659 . .Dakan Ranch 8 

Leadville LeadvUle 10025 . .Vendome Hotel 300 

" Delaware Hotel 100 

Littleton Littleton 5372 . . Commercial Hotel . . 25 

" " GlenPlym 12 

" " Harwood Inn 25 

Longmont Longmont 4935 . . Imperial Hotel 100 

•^ " Silver Moon Hotel.. 50 

Lyons Lyons 5300 . .Welch's Resort 125 

" " Elkhorn Ranch 

" " Billings' Ranch 25 

" Allen's Park Copeland's Ranch . . 25 

" Lyons Steamboat Villa 30 

" " Thorncroft 25 

" " Lyons House 25 

" " St. Vrain Hotel 20 

Manitou Manitou 6318 . . Arlington Hotel 50 

" " Bellevue House .... 75 

" " Bonnev Blink Hotel. 75 

" " CliffHouse 350 



.... 2.50 

.. E. 1,00 

12.00 to 15.00 

.... 3.00 

... . 4.00 

2.50 up 

.50 to 1.00 

.. E. l.OOup 

.50 to 1.00 

.50 to 1.00 

E. .50up 

.2.00. 



On application 


'l5.00 up 


1.50 


Vo.oo' 


2.50 

200 




.2.00 up. 




7.00 up 


3.00 

E. .75 up 


' 8.66' 


1.50 

. 200 




10.00 to 14.00 


1.25 


li.so'up 


Cottages. 


10,00 




10.00 




8.00 




8.00 


On application. 

On application. 

8.00 uD 




10.00 up 




16,00 up 




15.00 up 




Kiowa Lodge 



POSTOFFICE 



CAPAC- 
ITY 



Mnnitou Manitou 6318 . .Deerpath Lodge 50 

" " East LjTin Hotel... 25 

« " Grand View Hotel.. 175 

" " Mansions 250 

» " Navajo 225 

•' " Pittsburg Hotel.. . . 200 



" " Ruxton Hotel 200 

« " St. Elmo Hotel .... 100 

" " Sunny Side House . . 150 

Meeker Meeker Meeker Hotel 100 

" " Miller House 

" " Farmer's Home 

.Smith Cent. Hotel.. 
. New Belvidere Hotel 
. Monument Hotel. . . 

Curtis Ranch 10 

5753 . .Cliff House 50 

Mt.Morrison Casino. 100 



WEEK 

.00 up 
.00 up 
00 up 
.00 up 
00 up 
GO up 

Portland"Hotel 100 8.00 up 

.00 up 
00 up 
00 up 



12J 



Montrose Montrose. 



5811 



. 2.00 to 3.00. 
. 2.00 to 3.00. 
. 1.50 to 2.00. 

2.00. 

2.50. 



Monument Monument. 



6974 



Morrison. Morrison.. 



50 

75 

15 .....5.50 to 7.00 

00 
00 



10.( 



3.00. 



Mt. Princeton 
Hot Springs Hortense 



Nast. 



Nederland Nederland. 

New Castle New Castle . 



8000 . . Mt. Princeton 25 

Hortense Hotel 100 

Sellar Frying Pan 0. C. .. 50 



8265 
5562 



10.00 

10.00 

12.00 up 

Antlefs Hotel 50 7.00 up 

2.00 



Ouray. Ouray. 



7806 



1.50., 
3.00. 
3.00., 
1.50., 
1.25.. 



Palmer Lake. . .Palmer Lake. , 



7237 



..Albany Hotel 24 .. 

. .Tabbard Inn 15 . . 

. . Beaumont Hotel . . 75 . . 

..WUson Hotel 40 .. 

..Western Hotel 70 .. 

..St. Elmo 50 .. 

. .Rocklands 100 2.00 

..Y.W.C. A. Summer 

House 50 3, 

. .Verona Lodge — 

Kinnikinick 75 7 

.. Hanks' House 10 1.00 

..Palmer Lake House. 12 1.00 



50 

.00 up 



TOWN 

Pagosa Springs 

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a 

Poncha HotSpg, 
Pine Grove. . .. 

Pueblo. ! 

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Rifle. ..'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 

u 
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Rye.. ..'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 
Shawnee 

St. Cloud"!!!! 
SteamboatSpgs. 

Sulphur Spgs.. . 
Twin Lakes. . . . 



POSTOFFICE 



ALTI- 
TUDE 



CAPAC- 
ITY 



Pagosa Springs 7108 . .Commercial Hotel. . 20 

" Nickel Plate Hotel.. 50 

" Springs Hotel 50 

" San Juan Hotel 10 

" Strawn Hotel 20 

Patrick Hotel 50 

" American Hotel .... 20 

Poncha 7509 . . Poncha Hot Spgs ... 50 



On application. 
On application. 
On application. 
On application. 



10.00 
12.00 
12.00 



Pine. 



6738 



12.00 



Pueblo 4672 



.TheProsser 30 7.00 to 10.00 

. Willomere Ranch . . 25 10.00 

.Jewell Ranch 25 10.00 up 

.Clark's Wells Hottl. 70 2.00 

Grand Hotel 175 2.50 up 

Hotel Maine 125 3.00 

Lousteaus Hotel .. 60 1.03 

Midland Hotel 50 .E .75 to 1.00. . 

New Albany 50 .E.75to2,00 

NewAmhurst 50 .E.75 to 1.50 

Royal Hotel 50 2.00 

Southern Hotel 100 10.50 up 

Union Depot Hotel. 40 3.00 

5310.. Rifle Falls Ranch .. 24 2.00 !.!!'. 

Watson's Ranch ... 15 1.50 

Winchester-Clark 

Hotel 100 ....... 2.00 

Rifle House 60 2.00 

7300 ..Mountain View Hotel 

8125 ..Shawnee Lodge 50 12.00 up 

" Grand View Hotel . . 25 10.00 

St. Cloud 7000 . .Cherokee Park 125 9.00 

SteamboatSpgs.. 6500 .. Onyx Hotel 30 10.00 

Sheridan Hotel 40 10.00 up 



Rifle. 



Rye 

Shawnee., 



Sulphur Spgs.. . 8000 



Twin Lakes. 



.Bartz Hotel 20 

.Kinney House 35 

.Grand Hotel 40 

.Twin Peaks Hotel... 40 

.Interlaken Hotel .. 20 

. Anderson House ... 50 



1.00 
, 12.00 
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9333 ..Cottage Hotel 20 



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Columbian Hotel. 

Coronado Hotel. . . 

Commercial Hotel . 

Elmwood Hotel . . . 

New Metropolitan . 

The Cardenas 150 3.50 

Hot Springs Hotel 

8448.. andCottages 100 3.00 

9450 . .0. & N. Hotel 50 7.00 up 

" " Columbia Hotel. ... 20 7.00 up 

Woodland Park Woodland Park 8484 . . Midland Hotel 50 8.00 

" Terrington Manitou Park 100 17.50 up 

" Woodland Park Skei ton's Ranch 

Resort 250 15.00 up 

" " Woodland Hotel.. . . 100 8.00 up 

Woods Lake. , .ThomasviUe Woods Lake 75 15.00 up 



Wagon Wheel Wagon Wheel 

Gap Gap 

Ward Ward 



Ye tumbling streams and towering peaks, 

Which fill the soul with ecstasy, 
Belittle every tongue that speaks. 

Would that I might give praise to thee, 
And tell the world of splendors rare 

Which I behold ; but I am dumb. 
The spell is on me, visions fair 

Fill my poor brain. Words will not come. 




Hotel Glen Isle 




Atlanta, Ga.. 6 North Pryor St S. L. Parrott District Passenger Agent 

Birmingham, Ala., 105 20th St. North F. M. Griffith.. .Traveling Passenger Agent 

Boston, Mass. , 288 Washington St O. B. Sloat. . . New England Passenger Agent 

Buffalo, N. Y., 297 Main Street H. M. Brown District Passenger Agent 

Cedar Rapids, Iowa John G. Farmer ..Division Passenger Agent 

Chattanooga, Term., Patten Hotel Bldg R. S. Russell.... Traveling Passenger Agent 

Chicago, 111., 91 Adams St A. B. Schmidt.. Gen'l Agent Passenger Dept. 

Cincinnati, Ohio, 38 East 4th St H.I. McGuiRE District Passenger Agent 

Cleveland, Ohio, 715 Euclid Ave Fat Thompson ....District Passenger Agent 

Colorado Springs, Colo. , 2 Pike's Peak Ave. . W. W. Wood City Passenger Agent 

Council Bluffs , Iowa, 16 Pearl St A. T. Elwell City Passenger Agent 

Dallas, Tex., St. L. S. F. & T. Ry., 332 Main St J. B. MoRROW, Southwestern Passenger Agent 

C. R.I. &G.Ry., Main and AkardSts.S. J. TuCKER City Passenger Agent 

Danville, 111 O. B. Loziek Traveling Passenger Agent 

Davenport, Iowa, 320 Brady St S. F. Boyd Division Passenger Agent 

Denver, Colo. , 17th and Curtis Sts G. W. Martin General Agent 

Des Moines, Iowa, 423 Walnut St Geo. R.Kline City Passenger Agent 

Detroit, Mich. , Majestic Bldg R. S. Torrington . . District Passenger Agent 

Evansville. Ind., 210 Upper Second St N. K. Agnew .City Passenger Agent 

Fort Worth. Tex., C.R.I. &G.Rv,5thandMainSts..V. N. TuRPiN City Passenger Agent 

St.L. S.F.&'T.Ry.,WheatBldg.M. M. Maloney. .City Pass'r and Tkt. Agent 

Hot Springs, Ark M. J. Geary City Passenger Agent 

Indianapolis. Ind., QOlaypool Bldg J. F. Powers District Passenger Agent 

Joplin. Mo., 112 W\ 4th St L.W.Price Division Passenger Agent 

Kansas City, Mo., 412413 Bryant Bldg J. A. Stewart. . .Ass't Gen'l Passenger Agent 

9th and Main Sts C. W. JoNER City Passenger Agent 

lisavenworth, Kan., 424 Delaware St J.M. Allen General Agent 

Lincoln, Neb., 1345 St F. H. Barnes City Passenger Agent 

liittle Rock. Ark. , 211 Main St James Harris District Passenger Agent 

liondon, England, 29-30 Cockspur St., S. W.. Alex. Jackson General European Agent 

Ii08 Angeles, Cal.. 555 S. Spring St J. L. Stanton District Passenger Agent 

Memphis. Tenn., Memphis Trust Bldg J.N. Cornatzar, Ass't Gen'l Passenger Agent 

Peabody Hotel E. SUTCLIFFE City Passenger Agent 

Minneapolis, Minn., NicoiletAve. and 1th St.. .W. L. Hathaway... District Passenger Agent 

NashviUe, Tenn. , 416 Church St P. S. Weever .... Traveling Passenger Agent 

New Orleans, La., 711-713 Gravier St I. T. Preston General Agent 

New York, N. Y., 401 Broadway K. E. Palmer, Gen'l Eastern Passenger Agent 

Oklahoma City, Okla. ( Rock Island Lines. . . J. S. McNally Division Passenger Agent 

" ~ ~ " ,.C. O. Jackson Division Passenger Agent 

..G. S. Pentecost.. .Division Passenger Agent 

.H.I. Battles General Agent 

Philadelphia, Pa., 1019 Chestnut St Perry Griffin.... District Passenger Agent 

Pittsburg. Pa. , 522 Smithfield St L. H. McCormick. .District Passenger Agent 

Pueblo, Colo., 226 North Main St Geo. R. Cruzen City Passenger Agent 

Rock Island, HI. , 1829 Second Ave F. H. Plummer City Passenger Agent 

St. Joseph. Mo., ethandEdmond Sts J. J. Goodrich City Pass'r Agent 

St. Louis, Mo., 900 Olive St F. J. Deicke.. General Agent Passenger Dept. 

H. P. Mantz District Passenger Agent 

St. Paul, Minn., 6th and Robert Sts F. W. Saint City Passenger Agent 

Salt Lake City, Utah, 14 E. Third South St.. Jas. Doolittle General Agent 

San Francisco, Cal., 882 Market St F.W.Thompson General Western Agent 

Seattle. "Wash., 322 Pacific Block Geo. P. Cave General Agent 

Terre Haute, Ind J. E. BUDD, City Passenger and Ticket Agent 

Topeka, Kan H. H. Hunt City Passenger Agent 

"Waterloo, Iowa C. F.Hayes City Pass'r and Ticket Agent 

"Wichita, Kan., Frisco Lines F. E. Clark Division Passenger Agent 

Rock Island Lines A. E. Dove City Passenger Agent 

L. M. ALLEN General Passenger Agent Rock Island Lines, Chicago 

A. HILTON General Passenger Agent Frisco Lines, St. Louis 

GEO. H. LEE.. ..Gen'l Pass'r Agent C. R. I. & P. Ry. (Choctaw Dist.), Little Rock 

"W. H. RICHARDSON General Passenger Agent C. & E. I. R. R.. Chicago 

JOHN SEBASTIAN Passenger Traffic Manager 



117 West Main St. ( Frisco Lines. 

Omaha, Neb., ]323Farnam St 

Peoria, 111.. 101 South Jefferson St.... 



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